Improved whitewashing apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES H. WILEY, OF BUOKSPORT,-MAINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,802, dated May 15, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoSES H. WILEY, of Bucksport, in the county ofH-ancock and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Appl lvin g Whitewash to the Geilin g of an Apartment; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following Specilication and represented in the accom panying drawings, ot' which- Figure l denotes .a top view. Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of it.

In such drawings, A represents a box or reservoir open at the top and provided at the bottom with a socket or projection, a, for affixing the said box to a long handle or pole.

There is at one end ot the open part or mouth of the box a roller, b, and there is also at the opposite end ot' the box a brush, c, the Same being arranged in other respects as represented in the drawings. The roller should be so applied to the box as to be capable ot' being freely revolved on its axis. Furthermore, there is arranged within the box or reservoir, and applied to it so as to be revoluble, a second roller, d, whose external covering, d, should be formed ot' cloth or other like absorbent inaterial. This last roller extends within the reservoir and nearly to its bottom, and has its upper surface about on a level with or somewhat below a straight line extending from the brush to the upper surface of the tirst roller. The reservoir is intended to hold whitewash or any liquid which it may be desirable to have applied to a ceiling.

In operating with the above-described apparatns it, after having been charged with a sut'- iicient amount ot the wash, is to be borne up against the ceiling-that is to say, So that the rollers and brush may run in contact therewith, the apparatus under such circumstances being moved along the ceiling' from time to time and to such extent as occasion may require. While it may be in the act ot' being so moved against the ceiling the cloth-covered roller of the apparatus will take up more or less ofthe wash and apply it to the ceiling, the brush, in the meantime, operating to cleanse the ceiling from dust and to prepare it for the reception of the wash. The rearmost or Smaller roller and the larger or wash-applying roller serve to maintain the brush in its proper relation to the ceiling.

The above apparatus will also be t'ouind very useful for washing or cleansing a ceiling preparator.)1 to the application of whitewa-sh or color thereto.

I claim as my invention- The said apparatus or combination otl the reservoir A, the rollers Zn and d, and the brush c, arranged substantially in manner and so as to operate as and for the purpose or objects hereinbefore speci lied.

EDWARD T. PERKINS, C. J. COBB. 

